Vintage cars, golden era photo shoots

[Stearmen]

The Daylight

Oh, if you don't care much for trains, wait till you get next to a real live steam loco like 3751... it's amazing really to think of the power steam locomotives had... and to hear that whistle... Amazing. You'll change your toon!
Train's ain't all kids stuff and Thomas the Tank Engine... It's how people used to move place to place in the Golden Age.

I see now, they are new! Actually, I have been as close as you can get without being under the train. For the Eisenhower centennial in ABILENE, KANSAS, we first chased the Southern Pacific Daylight steam train with a squadron of WWII airplanes. Then after we landed, we were taken to the depot in the back of a DUKW. We stood at attention close enough to reach out and touch her if we wanted to, as the Daylight, full of WWII veterans pulled in to the station! Every one was either dressed in WWII cloths or their best I Like Ike 50s outfits, we were in our Ike Jackets naturally.

 

[Forgotten Man]

Wow, the Daylight... A childhood favorite of mine... still a lovely train and always will be!

Neat story, I enjoyed it!

 

[Stearmen]

Wow, the Daylight... A childhood favorite of mine... still a lovely train and always will be!

Neat story, I enjoyed it!

I should add one more thing, even though I am not into trains, if they ever get one of the Big Boys 4-8-8-4 running I will make a special trip to see it! Preferably climbing a grade at speed!

 

[GHT]

Some of you have been most complimentary about my old MG. In fact some of you have owned an MG and some of you would like to. Well I can tell you this, you're in good company.
Philip enjoys driving and does it fast! He has his own tiny M.G which he is very proud of – he has taken me about in it, once up to London, which was great fun. The then Princess Elizabeth, in 1947

 

[sola fide]

Recent pics of my 38 Town Sedan as I'm washing her. She sat the garage for two years, but finally have her on the road.

 

[GHT]

Fab-u-lous! I love the car and I love the colour. How I would like to say that this is our car, sadly not, but it is a contemporary of your's. One that's crossed the pond(note which side the steering wheel is,) and is now garaged at a very good friend of ours. (The lady is my wife, Tina.)

 

[sola fide]

Wow, very nice

 

[GHT]

The amount of admirers for MG cars knows no bounds.

 

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http://theoldmotor.com/?p=158210

 

[1930artdeco]

I was lucky enough to go to the Concourse De Elegance this year in Monterey, CA. Besides drooling at all of the cars I fell in love with ......



Mike

 

[GHT]

I was lucky enough to go to the Concourse De Elegance this year in Monterey, CA. Besides drooling at all of the cars I fell in love with ......
Mike

It's easy to see why you fell in love with that beauty. Hope I'm not going to make an ass of myself here, but is that a Cadillac? It certainly looks like one. Tell me though, from what I can see, there's only one occupant in the car and he's not on the side I would have expected. Is it right hand drive?

 

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Bugatti Atalante Barn Find

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/automobiles/collectibles/27BARN.html?mcubz=0

 

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Bugatti Atalante Barn Find

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/automobiles/collectibles/27BARN.html?mcubz=0

Really fun article with some great historical connects. I don't know if he is still adding to his ridiculous collection, but if he is, this one has Ralph Lauren written all over it.

 

[1930artdeco]

GHT, that is a mid 30's Packard touring car. I ended up helping a gentleman replace his wheel after it fell off after our Gatsby event in Oakland. That wheel tire combo weighs more than two of my Model A wheels-or at least it felt like it. It is left hand drive, just hard to see the driver.

Mike

 

[GHT]

GHT, that is a mid 30's Packard touring car. I ended up helping a gentleman replace his wheel after it fell off after our Gatsby event in Oakland.

Good grief, I really should have known that.

That wheel tire combo weighs more than two of my Model A wheels-or at least it felt like it. It is left hand drive, just hard to see the driver. That wheel tire combo weighs more than two of my Model A wheels-or at least it felt like it. It is left hand drive, just hard to see the driver.

Now you will understand my love of the MG. In the 1930's they came up with a system that they called 'The Jackall.' It meant jacking all the wheels up. There was also a way of jacking up a single wheel, a pair of wheels or all four wheels. You simply turn a dial in the jackall box, insert the cranking handle and turn.
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[GHT]

These images of early Cadillacs struck a chord. All the occupants are wearing a hat. The wind in the face didn't seem to worry them.

 

[Studebaker Driver]

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These images of early Cadillacs struck a chord. All the occupants are wearing a hat. The wind in the face didn't seem to worry them.

The bottom photo is President William Howard Taft (1909-1913) in a Pierce-Arrow.

 

[GHT]

The bottom photo is President William Howard Taft (1909-1913) in a Pierce-Arrow.

Thanks for that, the car appears to be right hand drive. Could the photo have been taken somewhere where they drive on the left?

 

[Studebaker Driver]

No, in the US traffic has always passed on the right as it does today. It was customary to have steering wheels on the right side early on - a carry-over from horse and wagons/buggies. The greater concern then was how close the driver was to the curbstone or boardwalk and how close his wheels were getting to the ditch that ran along many roads.

Carriage drivers still drive from the right side, but as soon as cars hit the road with their greater speed, they wanted to overtake slower cars and wagons. With the driver seated on the right, nearly the entire car had to move out into the oncoming traffic lane to gain a view of the road ahead and this practice led to horrific head-on accidents. A few auto makers began the transition, but the clincher was when Ford, with the introduction of the Model T in October of 1908, put the steering wheel on the left. Not only could drivers now see ahead by edging out a foot or so, passengers no longer had to enter the car from the street side, they could enter and exit directly onto the sidewalk.

Few makers held onto the right hand drive configuration, most notably Pierce-Arrow and Stutz, which clung to it until the early 1920s.

 

[Studebaker Driver]